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Re:Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug by userbinator on Sunday January 01, 2017 @03:32AM (#13295112)
"- UTC timestamps can unambiguously refer to times years in the future; TAI timestamps cannot, because it is unknown how many seconds will be in each year."

Isn't it the other way around, since TAI has no leap seconds?

"What would be simpler would be ending the use of leap seconds for a millennium or so."

That effectively means using TAI consistently, which is what software not aware of leap seconds would be doing anyway (despite the fact that it's actually working with UTC.)

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Re:Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug by rspeer on Sunday January 01, 2017 @04:58AM (#13295278)
TAI has no leap seconds, but years, as currently defined, do.

And yes, I'm advocating for changing that definition, and making UTC a constant offset from TAI that works the same as TAI for the foreseeable future.

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